Sri Lanka’s first-ever vision-impaired Member of Parliament, Sugath Wasantha de Silva has requested the public to immediately seek medical attention if they sustain any injury to the eye, and not take it lightly.
Speaking during an interview with local media, the National Peoples’ Power (NPP) MP narrated the story behind the injury of his eye, as a lesson for the public, revealing that one of his eyes had been injured after a cricket ball hit the eye while playing cricket at the age of 11.
“The first mistake I made was not using my hands to catch the ball. The second mistake was that I hid the injury and failed to report it to my family at the time. This caused me to become vision-impaired. My advice to the public is to immediately go to the eye hospital even if it is as simple as dust in your eyes. These eye injuries go a long way,” he added.
MP Sugath Wasantha de Silva also warned that the life of a vision-impaired person was extremely difficult and people cannot recover from such eye injuries if ignored.
MP Sugath Wasantha de Silva has been appointed as a Member of Parliament through the National List of the National Peoples’ Power (NPP). (Islandnews)
